The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-17
TEMPERANCE WOMEN.
NATIONAL W. Q. T. U. CONVENTION
In Session at Nashville-Miss Wlilard's An.
\ nuni Addrsss-rhs Work Of tho Past
" Year and Plans for tho Future-An
Able and Comprehensive Paper.

ANhnhNAAAkt AANNsS 4NVNs ASs AAo Az
tlonal Women's Christian Temperance
Union opened its convention this morning
In Watkins Institute Hall. v
It Is the largest and most influential as.
sembly Of ita character ever held In tho
United States. 5a I. ifsi.5 III
Miss Frances E. Willard, Of Chicago,
President Of the National Union, said be.
fore the real business Of the convention
began delegates from forty States and Ter.
ritories, including the Pacific coast, would
be present, and those from tho remoter
points are expected to arrive to-day.
There will be mass meeting In the Gum.
berland Presbyterian Church this evening.
All tho addresses, reports and proceed.
inga Of tho convention will be printed in
the Union Signal, publication Of which
will be specially issued to serve the pur.
poses Of the convention. Miss Willard is
very enthusiastic and panguine as to the
great results that she predicts cannot fail to
follow tho work which will be accomplish.
ed before the convention finally adjourns
Many OF the papers to be read cover tho
broadeBt field OF social research, nhowing
the relations OF intemperance to crime,
to the burdens OF taxation borne by the
people at large for the maintenance Of a
constantly Rugmenting judiciary, the
erection Of vast penal and reiormatory in.
stltutions throughout the land, tho sup
port Of the growing Thousands Of prisoners
and tho development OF pauperism Of late
years in the principal centers Of popula.
ton in America. ..f, "A.
A powerful appeal will be made to Con.
gress to strengthen the aims and objects
OF this organization Of women, and the
hope is more than ever strongly enter.
tained that Legislative efforts will be d.
resled during the next Congress to at least
tho partial cure Of some Of the OWLS which
tho Women's Christian Temperance Union
are striving to extirpate from tho body
polite. &5
MISS wILLARD's Address.
Following Is synopsis of Miss Francis
E. Willsrd's annual address; p
Forty States and Territories have sent
four hundred representatives to the mo.
tropolis Of Southern education. The
Northern home.keepers have crossed Ma.
son and Di1on's line to clasp hands with
their sistsrs. No surer token that We are
one nation has been given eince 1884. G.
Si1ty.four different suggestions OF work
are tabulated under the heads of Praven.
lion, Educational, Evangelistic, Social and
Legal work. The fact that no State Union
10 bound by the action Of the National So.
ciety was emphasized. There are not
enough anti.ssloon Republicans ct the
North to carry prohibition in single
State that Is now struggling 10 neGure 1t;
nor enough anti.saloon Democrats at the
South, as has been proved in this MEM
orable year Of cur Constitutional defeats;
but there are enough temperance men in
both to take possession Of the Government
and give US National prohibition in the
party OF tho near future, which is to be
the party of God. Women should use
their utmost influence, and wherever they
have the school ballot they should use
that to epgralt the kindergarten upon the
public schools. Wherever this cannot be
done, let the Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union establiah one; but above all
let every mother study tbs system and
employ it in her own home.
Miss Louise L. Smith, Of Philadelphia,
one OF our Eyangelissic veterans, has pro.
posed that Ye district the national giving
to each sub-diyisien leader Of it's own. I
hope her plan may be carefully consider
ed, but my heart turns with tender lave
and blessing toward the Church of Christ,
and prays for the time when her own hal.
lowed ministries shall be 50 persuasive
that outside gocieties shall no longer pre-.
vail-when our legal work !shall broaden
into Christian citizenship, our educational
efforts into public kindergartens and in.
dustrial schools; where hygiene ghall be
the study earliest and longest taught;
the Church shall Tslcome souls to all hel
counselB-lay upon our heada he.,conse.
Grating hands and claim for her own voice
that 54, \. Y
SPEAKS FOR CHRIST. tT
We must work out the masitost destiny
Of the municipal ballot for women as q
meanG Of enforcing prohibitory law, and
emphasize more strongly than before the
National amendment, which shall remove
all legal disabilities from the daughters o!
the Republic. l believe also that the
Prohibition party should strongly state a,
Its ultimate aim two amendnsnts to the
National Constitution; the first, calling
for universal prohibition; the second, en-.
franchising the women, and that 1t should
carefully study the platforms Of the labor
rsformers, both Knights Of Labor and
principles Of arbitration and cooperation
into its own with any others that seem to
be based upon Christian ethics and
Christian brotherhood. Among these
| is most assuredly involved equal wages as
we'll as equal moral standards for women
and men heavier penalties for crimes
against women and the raising Of the age
Of protection to Is years. The Women'a
Temperance Publication Association last
naax ,,nhliahad 40 00l 000 nanaa fhia raar